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Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns…
Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns / left fitted for the press by his own hand.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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27 Surely it is for man's own good, In youth to bear the [taming] yoke;
28 He sits alone, and silence keeps, Instructed by God's [teaching] stroke.
29 His mouth he putteth in the dust, Submits to [any] terms of hope:
30 He gives his cheeks to him that smites, With [lying] railers will not cope.
31 God will not ever cast us off, Nor from his [chosen] people go;